Not sure when we were planning to drop Python 3.6 support? NEP 29 suggested to do that last year, and there are no bug fix releases for 3.6 since 2018. Ubuntu 2020 LTS has Python 3.8.

numpy, scipy and pandas have already made a Python 3.7+ release, so it's probably time for us as well, and 1.0 could be a good occasion to do so.

This would simplify CI/ maintenance work a bit.